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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted. ~Lao
Tzu, Chinese philosopher

I am very sad to be writing this. I thought there were members
of the admin team who I could trust, and who could trust me in
return. I thought that certainly things that happened over a year
ago would be water under the bridge by now. It appears that’s not
the case.

I also thought that members of the admin team would stick up for
each other. I thought that as a group, we’d support each other’s
decisions, and stick up for one another when the user base didn’t
like a choice that was made. I’ve certainly tried to do this myself
numerous times, no matter what position I’ve held. But it appears
that that same courtesy is not applied to me.

So, because of my low grades in two of my classes, I can't have
electronics at school until I get it back up to a C at the lowest,
so until then, I'm restricted to two hours a day on weekdays until
I regain all As, and four hours on weekends, so there may be less
of me around, so if you really need to contact me, below are the
ways I can be contacted at this point in time.

If the name is bolded, it means I have access to it at any point
in time.

On the 24th of October I am going on a fun residential, not far,
but we've been warned there's not really going to be good signal up
there and you're not allowed to use your phone in activities, so I
figured I might warn you guys. I hope to be able to get on a few
times, but the point is to socialise with people and spend time
with your friends, so it could be quite limited. The plan is to be
back home in the evening of the 27th of October so I'll be back
again. :)

Hey, guys! I take it you all have a good guess as to what this
blog is all about, if you've seen the blog title. :P If you
don't, then let me clear that up for you: the sorting forums have
been redesigned! I know you've all been hoping for this for a while
now, so I hope you're pleased with the final product.

Now, they still have the same format, but some MC questions have
been changed, the minimum requirements for personalities and
histories alike have been bumped up, and open-ended questions have
been added! Read below for more details. :)

To make the sorting process not just easier, but more organized,
I've divided the sorting process into three. There's Stage 1, Stage
2, and Stage 3. Below are stated what each stage means, and the
correc…

Wow, okay, so I don't know why I named the blog
that. I have a deadly fear of being on a sinking
ship. :c

Anyways, hi guys! This blog isn't overly important, if I'm to be
honest. It's just to let you guys know about my upcoming decrease
in activity. :P I'm going on a vacation from October 1 to
October 8 for my sweet fifteen, and I'll probably have no wifi,
since it's on a cruise. However, I might get something when I'm on
the islands, so I might be able to come on. I just can't
promise anything. :P Moreover, the S&S department will
still be running, approving/sorting characters left and
right, so don't worry about that. :)

...this is a relatively short blog. Wow. Okay. Not used to that. xD
If you guys have any concerns, feel free to catch me on…

For the quarter finals, we'll be taking up two separate weeks to
be playing out four matches. So, here's the list of matches and
their primary and secondary GMs. :D If you've discovered you
won't be able to post on these matches, it's advised you find
somebody else on that team to be posting for you during that
stretch of time. Thanks!

Hello dear readers this is Plasma X and I'm certainly enjoying
my stay here.I'm grateful to all admins who working hard to make
this wikia a perfect Harry Potter RPG Wiki and believe me it
already is.I hope to stay active as I'm now.Thankyou again to
admins and all the active members of DARP.

Hey, guys! Lately, I've noticed a lot of users have little to no
ships, and as the Admiral (kudos to Carn), it's really
irking me. School is supposed to be fun!! With ships, and
heartbreak, and love, and laughter!! Hogwarts is seriously
lacking that right now, and it's sort of upsetting, because with
ships come character development, and that's always great! SO I've
come with the brilliant idea to make this page to list characters
that are single and ready to mingle, for people to consider and
check out. :P I hope this reaches yall's hearts or smth and I
start seeing these ships happen.

I know there was the Character Matchmaker a while ago, but that was
more of an IC thing. I intend to make this a bit more OOC, just so
users can talk it out, an…

After receiving my schedule, it's
been revealed that my life is going to be really crazy for about
nine and a half months starting September 1st. I'm staying in as
Crat, but I'm just going to get a little bit less active on the
weekdays. I'm going to be mainly only active in the afternoon, but
I'll be trying to get on during the morning and the lunch hours,
but I'm not guaranteeing anything.

I'll be juggling between three Highly Capable classes, refining my
knowledge of American Sign Language, managing Honors Society
meetings, and running around doing plays and musicals for Drama
Club (because self-sabotaging is so fun). I'm not sure when exactly
I'll be on, because I'm yet to start the school year, so I'll be
giving an update on that. Unti…

So, this is pretty much an update blog for me and you to use as
a reference guide when I'm not on here or am inactive.

1) I'm mostly staying on here due to Soph, Meri, and Jay. No one
else.

2) I'm entering my junior year and am trying to become an
occupational therapist once graduated. Occupational Therapy,
especially in the beginning, is an extremely competitive field of
study, which means I will be spending more time studying and
working to try and make myself the best choice in the end.

3) I'm also in the interests of a publisher, which means that I
have to focus on my writing now...

I can't give as much to DARP as I did in the beginning, which
means that starting tomorrow, I'll officially be going semi-active.
I will more often be active o…

Which, exactly? Well none other than the return to school.
That's great, isn't it? :D I look forward to the new school
year! I can't wait to take Algebra 2, Chemistry, and all that very
fun stuff! Yay, right? that's bull if y'all didn't figure it
out. i hate school. please no. ;w; cri cri. I don't
have it as bad as Catty does... barely bad at all, but my activity
will decrease a little bit while I get used to the new
schedule and all. Not to mention, there's always one point in the
school year in which I get grounded, and get limited to two hours
online during the week, and three on weekends. For you that don't
know, It's... not unusual for me to get grounded, so if you all
no…

I didn't really think I should write this, but I decided it was
better to have it out there to explain my sudden disappearance.

I'm not saying goodbye. Because Goodbye seems too permanent (and
unfortunately you're going to be stuck with me sometime in the
future :P ). So instead I'll say see you later. I didn't
exactly plan this, but what can you really plan when Real life is
involved. You don't really know where it will take you, or what
effect it will have on you. I know i have a character currently as
a teacher and also a head of department but some personal things
happened lately, kind of suddenly that I have to sort out and on
top of that I got my exam results a little while ago, and they
weren't exactly what I'd hoped, so this year I …

So my new school has a really strict phone policy at the moment,
meaning that if you use it during school hours it could be taken
away. (Like, if you use it without a teacher's express permission,
even during lunch or study hall, you could lose it.) I'm unwilling
to bring in my laptop since the school has a theft issue. What this
means is I'll only be able to post from the bus and the occaisional
times my mom takes me with her to the library/her school on
weekends. The district is working on approving the new phone policy
that says we can use our phones outside of class and maybe study
hall, but until then I won't be on for extended periods of time
very often.

AKA hmu with an owl or whatever. I'm still here, I'm still
queer, and I'm not a b…

Emelia Caracciolo She never really got settled in England, and
she still desperately misses Piero and Bassano del Grappa. She
managed to convince Cathryn to let her transfer to a school in
Italy where they can continue their search from home ground.

Feli Fiedler Her dad got sick a while ago. She'll be going home
for some time at the end of the semester to look after him and be
homeschooled by a tutor. (AKA, I don't yet know if she's coming
back.)

Audi Evans Audi's going to be moving to Durmstrang at the end of
the semester. She doesn't feel too great and doesn't know how much
seeing Eeku is going to help her move on.

Luciana Montagna She wants to at least try living in
Italy again. She doesn't kn…

If you look below, you'll see a list of teams and their players
(as well as any available spots). As you may see, there's a number
next to each of the team names which represents how many spots are
open on that said team. If you're curious about how you can make a
player, look here.

After some consideration, it’s been decided that we’re
announcing the summer expansion a few weeks earlier than we had
expected to for a variety of reasons. Although there’s already been
speculation or some knowledge of it, we’re here to confirm that
this upcoming summer expansion will be another Quidditch World
Cup!

For this, we’ll be having eight teams (see down
below) which we’ll be needing fifty-six players for to fill all
of the positions available.

I'm heading off to my high school at like, nine o'clock today
and I just wanna send y'all a sort of final goodbye because I'm
quite sure I'll be back online next weekend, depending on our car
and our weather's conditions. IC, let's just act like my characters
have faded into the background for the next five/six(?) OOC days.
I'll probably be able to post the next Daily Prophet once my first
school week is over, again depending on my teachers' mood about
whether they'd give us homework for the weekend.

So, I feel really bad since so many people are becoming less
active of late, but you guys deserve a heads up.

My summer finishes on September 5 (I will likely be absent most
of August 25, my results day) and I will, hopefully if the results
are good, be starting sixth form on this date. At this given moment
I intend to take up four A Levels, which is a large commitment and
I need to be prepared to take it seriously. I need to do at least
the number of hours of class time in home study throughout the
week, presumably plus homework. So this might lead to me being less
active than I would like. Whether stepping down is needed I will
gauge once I have started and have some idea how much of my time
will need to be committed to schoolwork.

As this title suggests, this blog is about pregnancies in
Hogwarts, and clairvoyance! Not... clairvoyants getting pregnant in
Hogwarts, but rather they're both different topics. xD Anyways,
let's get to it!

Now, I was meant to post a blog a few weeks ago about
pregnancies in Hogwarts, given that topic came up on chat a few
weeks ago. I know this is a particularly sensitive topic, so to
say, considering this is something that has caused arguments
beforehand, but I am not looking to start anything. Feel
free to leave your opinion in the comment section, but please, be
polite as you do so. :) I don't mean to offend anyone with
this blog post, and if it does, then I'm completely sorry. It was
not my intention.

So, I'm not quite sure why I'm making this blog post. Maybe I
just need an explanation for why I'm chucking away most of my
characters, and I need to write it down. Basically, I'm doing just
that - deleting many of my characters. All of them apart from Jack
and Adele are staying, but the rest are leaving. Or dying. Very
sorry.

As much as Rae loves her family, she knew she had to leave and
find some independence. She did just that - she joined her sister
in her travelling and found a happy job in another country. She
writes to her family every week.

Cedrica grew sick of not pursuing her dreams. England was
holding her back, and she knew she wanted to go on and continue her
project on making technology work in the magical world. She's
getting …

I've obviously not been active for a while now and that isn't
fair to this wiki. I ran for RB with the intent to serve and help
make DARP a better place but at the moment I know that I'm not
capable of doing that. RL comes first – school's been hectic,
I have more extra-curriculars this year, and there are some
problems I need to sort out too (but it's nothing you guys should
worry about).

Okay, this is my first time doing anything like this, so it may
be a bit bad, but I'm gonna give it my best shot.

1) I know I've plagurized. I've started coding lessons and doing
research to make sure that whatever I do is not plagurism.

2) I know I've irritated people. I've always been that one
person who's been in the shadows, who has been trying to fit in for
so long, and it's coming out to you guys.

3) My characters are currently some of the worst I've created
out of any time, so until further notice, I will be stopping all
character creation after Cassiel, excluding Alex, until I feel
ready to deal with more.

Next year, I am also becoming more involved in 4-H, school
leadership and writing. So, all of those will keep me busy.

Hi, guys! So, lately, there's been a lot of student werewolves put
in. It... doesn't really mix in with the information given to us by
the HP Wikia, which states that a lot of precautions had to be made
to ensure the safety and secret of Remus Lupin and his lycanthropy.
It was hard enough to keep the secret of one alone, so imagine a
slew of werewolves at Hogwarts, even with the Wolfsbane potion.
Realistically, parents would pull their kids out of Hogwarts if
they were to find out about the amount of werewolves in Hogwarts.
Many things could go wrong.

As a result of the sudden income of werewolves, Lyss, CK, and I
have agreed on putting a freeze on werewolf students. No werewolf
students will be made from here to two years IC from now. Hop…

Hi everyone!! I realized that I may not have told everyone,
assuming that a lot of people already knew, but I'll be leaving for
the summer next Wednesday, the 29th.

Originally, I was going to plan on staying home for the summer,
but I got an offer to be the Assistant Camp Director of the camp
I've disappeared to the past few summers, and have gone to since I
was about 8, and I just couldn't refuse the great opportunity.

I'll be at camp from June 29 until about August 22. So, during
the week, I'll rarely be able to come on due to the high level of
work and lack of good internet. But, I'll be home most weekends, so
I will be here to see you all and deal with any problems that I may
have not been able to during the week. I'll be doing my best …

To start, I suck at blog posts and
I also don't think I'm important enough to totally deserve one.
However, I still feel I should write one, because I don't want to
let a bunch of people know individually.

Anyways, recess is a small break for small little children to stop
learning how to draw ducks and trace their names over dotted lines
so they can go throw wood chips at each other and fall off the
monkey bars. Or, that's what it is in my mind, but it wasn't
that long ago that this soul was out doing that type of
stuff.

Obviously, that's not really the point, because that would be a
waste of a blog post. So, I just wanted to let everybody know that
I will be gone a lot more this summer than I normally am,
because I have a lot of days of vacati…

As most of you know, I'm entering my freshman year this August
1. PSHS is one heck of a strict school, meaning my Wi-Fi use
will be limited and closely observed, pocket Wi-Fi is not allowed,
our laptops will be in our locker at all times unless we're
using it for research, and we'll only be able to access educational
websites. I can't sneak in here because we'll be observed really
closely. BUT I'll be able to come home on weekends probably
so... :D

Since I'm running the Daily Prophet now, I've made up a schedule
for me so the publishing can still go on with my absence. It goes
somewhat like this:

Okay, so most of
you are probably aware of this already, I haven't made a big secret
out of it. But I like to make things official and tie off any loose
ends that might come up.

So I have a job this summer as a camp counselor at an overnight
camp. I'm at camp from Sunday morning to Friday evening. Which
means the only days I'll be able to access chat or even consistent
access to DARP will be Saturdays. I'll have my phone and very slow
camp wifi to deal with any issues that might come up with Quidditch
or AI stuff.

Now to tackle another issue... yes I do have a Head of House.
Dakota's going to take a sabbatical for a year. There will be a
temporary head of Ravenclaw chosen that will fill in for Dakota. As
for the league, I can still manage it…

A king's time as ruler rises and sets like the sun. One day,
Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as
the new king.

Mufasa, The Lion King

There are a lot of quotes about life, and growing up, and moving
on that I probably could have chosen... but the fact of the matter
is, I always hear Mufasa's voice from the Lion King when I think
about these sorts of things. I'm just a 90s Disney kid at heart,
what can I say?

But as much as I wish I could freeze time in say, 1999, I really
can't, and lately my life has been proving that more and more. To
use the phrases "stressful" and "challenging" aren't
extraordinarily adequate, but for now they'll do. It's been a
season of change, for the last year and a half of my life after
…

So...I don't know about anyone else, but with the Yule Ball
coming up next week, I'm kind of scrambling to find dates for my
characters. I feel like a lot of people are probably doing that on
chat, but given my schedule and everything I just can't get on chat
as much. I figured maybe it was just me, but if not and others
needed help finding Yule Ball dates, maybe I could help with that.
So...below will be a list of male and female characters who need
dates for the ball and their RPers. Add any of your characters who
will need a date. Feel free to owl anyone on this list to get your
characters dates, and please remember to remove your characters
once they have one. Hopefully everyone will find someone to go
with!

Several users have volunteered to help get this project off the
ground, but we can't do it alone! We need characters and users that
are willing to help get this up and moving once more. I have a list
of the current users and what articles they're doing down below.
Please post a comment in you want to help!

So the current plan looks a
little something like this:

The Prophet will be put out
every two weeks OOC

The Editor-In-Chief will be
Silena Bennett

I, Carnarvan will be assisting
with the OOC details

CattyTheOrchid16 will be doing
the coding

So this is very open-ended. If you
want to help or have a character that could be a
journal…

So, when I was on chat with some of you, I mentioned how my
parents were searching through my phone... Well unfortunately, some
of the texts I was sending were considered objectionable to them
(though they were taken out of context), and the trust level is
pretty low right now. They've basically told me I have to stop
coming here while doing homework, and are expecting me to get work
done much faster now. Also, I've lose some phone freedoms. Since
most of my posts come from homework time, my activity will probably
go down. I have a few days over the next week or so where I'll be
home alone, but besides that, you won't be seeing much of me.
Unfortunately, that's the way it has to be. I won't be gone
completely, just won't be on chat much, a…

Hey guys. Well, I'm back. I never thought I would actually say
that again.

I've actually come to miss you all, and I realized that a lot of
people on here, are probably a little nicer than on camp.

(Kidding) ((slightly))

So yeah. I'll try to be really active. Or as active as I can be
when my decide to take my electronics away.

So I've had an admin delete all of my old characters because I
want to start brand new and fresh. For those of you who knew me
before I left, I have changed. For anyone who knows me from Camp, I
have changed.

Although I can't delete my talk messages (God knows why when
they were from 2014 and have nothing to do with anything
important), I will find a way to archive them so that page will be
spotless.

After realizing that this has taken over me, and I'm not doing
so well in school because of here, I've decided to take a hiatus
for a while. I'll hopefully be back when summer starts, but not for
a long while.

If you want to talk to me, just contact me on Wattpad, FF, Skype
or Hangouts. As for my characters, here's what is going to
happen.

Alessa - Staying

Apollo - Staying

Alyss - Staying

Felicity - Adoption

Hailey - Adoption

Rebekah - Staying

Finlay - Staying

Jacinthe - Staying

Albion - Staying

Alissa - Staying

Lilliana - Staying

So, hopefully I'll be back and be very different, but if not, I
ask that you don't delete any of the characters besides Felicity
and Hailey.

So Nokia and I have stumbled upon a rather interesting post on
Tumblr regarding children celebrities and using them as face
claims. While most are relatively okay to be used, there are,
however, a few whose parents have said that those children do
NOT want to be used for roleplay purposes. I'm guilty
of using one myself and so I am in the process of changing her
model right away.

Here is the list. Please respect the wishes of the parents and
the kids themselves.

For the convenience of the people who can't access the list,
here are its contents:

Well...where do I begin? I guess I'd like to start off my saying
I'm sorry again, I'd fill the pages with "I'm so sorry" over and
over, but I don't want to waste any of your time any further. After
a long, long time of debating it...I've decided that I'm going to
leave DARP :/

It might seem out of the blue to some people, but others who
have followed my sandbox or stuff will know that I've been having
this argument in my head for a very long time now. I can't be
bothered to look too far back, but certainly since October. So
that's half a year, I guess, and each time I've tried my best to
find solutions and stay, but this time I just think I've realized
that maybe I keep coming back to the same question again because
I'm just not meant to st…

Hello everyone! Since the FAQ blog seemed to work really well
for the last expansion, I'm going to do it again for this one. So
pay attention to this blog-- it'll be updated regularly with
information about the Tournament as it progresses!

Updated: 04:17, June 28, 2016 (UTC)

Noelle Delacroix

Jenelle Mitchell-Anderson

Wesley Griffin

Jenelle Mitchell-Anderson

Eternal glory, and 1000 galleons!

First Place: Jenelle Mitchell-Anderson

Second Place: Mikaela Oldenburg-Hopkins

Third Place: Wesley Griffin

Fourth Place: Aleksander Nikolov

Fifth Place: Noelle Delacroix

Sixth Place: Rafael Martinez

Like with the 2nd task in Goblet of Fire, the Third Task on our
wiki will incorporate a loved one in some way. Users who RP the
Champions have a week to determine who th…

Now with that said I'm
going to be blunt, because as you all know... I don't beat around
the bush. The dynamic known as 'the CHBs' is causing me concern for
multiple reasons which I'm going to outline.

1. They use swords on
Hogwarts ground
This really shouldn't be a thing. I have seen multiple instances in
which swords or staffs have been used. These kids are 16. They
shouldn't be dueling in Hogwarts, or any place really.

2. They own a house
They are minors. Legally they cannot own a house. Heck, they
can't even live by themselves. They need adult supervision. I don't
care how it was justified, it shouldn't be happening.

3. This is the big one. The
Camp Half-Bloods are inspired from another book …

Hey, guys! So, I know there's been a lot of mix-ups with models
that are in use/reserved, so this blog is to clear that all up, as
well as let you all know of changes that have been made!

Users can now reserve up to four models at
a time, for as long as four months OOC, which
is a year IC. If you have any more than four models reserved at
this time, you'll be given until Thursday next week to lower it to
four.

If you have models reserved for existing characters (for
example, I have Blake Schmidt, and I wanna use Behati Prinsloo for
when she becomes of age), you have the opportunity to "renew the
dib" for another four months.

If you have models reserved for new characters, you
must use them by the end of the four months, or
you'll be forced to let …

IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO A LACK OF PLAYERS THE KENMARE KESTRELS HAVE
BEEN DISSOLVED FOR THE 2028-2029 SEASON.

It's
Back!
The Quidditch League has returned to DARP with new management for
the Department of Magical Games and Sports! There will be the same
six teams as before but feel free to get some new blood involved.
In fact that may be exactly what the league needs this season!

Managers
I think there's some merit to this idea, but like the players I
think they need to be selected once more. If you had a manager and
wish for them to remain a manager feel free to sign them up by
posting a comment below.

GMs
I can't GM all three quidditch matches by myself so I'm going to
need at least two assi…

Unfortunately, Wikia seems to be malfunctioning somehow, and
that has messed up some of the coding on the sorting pages. At this
time the convenient boxes that automatically create your sorting
forum are not working, so in the meantime, if you wish to make a
new sorting forum, please follow the below directions:

Go to the top right corner of the wiki. You should see this
(you will need to click on the "contribute" to get the drop down
menu.)

Click on "Add a Page"

Then this box will pop up:

Make sure to choose "Blank Page" for page layout.

Name your page Forum: Character Name, then hit
add a page.

Copy the following text onto the page:

The Sorting Quiz

Please Bold Your Choices

1) There are three paths. One leads to a wandering road, another to
a la…

Everybody ready for their finals? I hope so! The Super Final is
here!!

So, what does this mean?

On the Super Final page itself, you can post with your
characters finding a partner, if they don't have one lined up
already. First-Third Years can pair up, Fourth-Fifth Years can pair
up, and Sixth-Seventh Years can pair up. You cannot make pairs
outside of these groupings. Anything within is fair game.

Once you have a pair (either pre-planned, or found through the
Super Final page), please use Header Two on the appropriate
page for their final. Using header 2 will avoid anyone edit
conflicting others as we all journey through this crazy maze!

The final will last all the way through the end of Week 9
(ending on March 27), so hopefully this will give …

I'm sorry that some of you feel as though I'm trying to fight
with you or trying to break ships and I have apologized for it
multiple times. I know I said I wanted to leave, but there are some
people here that I just can't leave behind just yet. However, if I
feel as though or know that someone doesn't particularly like me, I
will be less likely to respond or talk to you.

Also, honestly. If you have a problem, just come to me. Please.
I may be stubborn but please at least try. I will try my best to
understand and reason.

I'm going to try and give myself some time away but you will
likely see me in chat sometimes or rather, rp on request or if I
ask.

So, life's kind of hectic right now, and to put it as plainly as
possible, I can't be an administrator on this wiki. Between being
an AI member in the expansion, which I've been horribly neglecting,
and real life issues that could be a lot better, there's no way
I've got enough time to contribute to my responsibilities here. So,
I'm stepping down to a regular user.

I don't know if I'm going to ask for my rights back or not yet,
but I know it's going to be a while before these RL issues get
cleared up, so if I suddenly become absent for a few weeks at a
time, don't be alarmed.

Alright, due to some of my comments last night I feel that an
apology is in order. I was out of line, and causing an argument
where there shouldn't have been one. I was trying to defend an
idea, and clearly wasn't doing a very good job of it. I'm truly
sorry for that.

There is no real excuse for my actions, other than a lack of
sleep and not thinking straight. And that's not an excuse either. I
shouldn't have been arguing in the matter that I was, and after a
good night's sleep I can see the other side's points. I should have
done that in the first place, instead I started an unhealthy debate
when I should have been sleeping to make sure it was
healthy.